Meat-block.



N0. 675,29l. Patented May 28, l90l. c. J. PETERS.

MEAT BLOCK.

(Application filed June 25, 1900.)

(No Model.)

W V w P INVENTOR ATTORNEY WIT ESS \E UNITED STATES PATENT EErcE.

CHARLES J. PETERS, OF LAFAYETTE, NEW YORK.

MEAT-BLOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 675,291, dated May 28,1901.

Application filed June 25, 1900. Serial No. 21,428. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that 1, CHARLES J. PETERS, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Lafayette, in the county of Onondaga, in the State ofNew York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Meat Blocks, ofwhich the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings,is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an improved construction of meat-blocks, andhas reference to that class in which a series of sections of wood areemployed and securely bound together.

The object of the present invention is to produce a meat-block whichshall be simple,

durable, and strong in construction and inexpensive in its manufactureand at the same time shall present a neat appearance.

Furthermore, the object of the invention is to form a meat-block whichcan readily be inverted, whereby the lower face thereof can be used incase the upper face becomes badly worn or in anyway inj ured, thusprolonging the life of the block.

'To these ends the invention consists in the novel construction andcombination of parts, as hereinafter fully described, and set forth inthe claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of my improvedmeat-block. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Figs. 3 and a arevertical sections on lines X X and Y Y, respectively, in Fig. 2. Fig. 5is a plan view of a portion of the supporting-base of the block. Fig. 6is a transverse section on line Z Z in Fig. 5, and Fig. 7 is an enlargeddetail perspective view of one of the prismatic sections.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a meat-block which is composedof a series of prismatic sections of hard wood a 0;. Said sections aredisposed contiguously side by side in straight rows and with their upperand lower faces in uniform horizontal planes, whereby either face of theblock can be used, and the grain of the wood is preferably presentedendwiseat the tops and the bottoms of the sections. The sections of eachrow are formed in the central portions of their heights with transversegrooves b b and c 0, arranged in different horizontal planes and atright angles to each other, which grooves extend from end to end of therows. In the two sets of coinciding grooves in the adjacent sides of therows are disposed correspondingly shaped bars at d and e 6,respectively, which lock the sections together, and thus retain the samein parallel planes. The entire series of sections is surrounded by a tief, which consists of a rectangular frame formed of boards contiguous tothe sides of the block and mitered together at their meeting ends andsecured to the block by means of screw-bolts g g, which enter thecornersections or a. Said tie or frame projects from each side of theblock, and thus facilitates the inversion of the block.

B represents the supporting-base of the block, which I prefer toconstruct of metal and form of separable sides h h. Said sides areL-shaped in cross-section and are mitered together at their meetingends. At the corners of the base are disposed legs 11 t', which aresecured to the base by means of bolts jj passing through said legs andsides, as clearly shown in Figs. 5 and 6 of the drawings, whereby thesaid sides are united.

The block A is separable from the supportin g-base B. Therefore in casethe upper face of the block is badly worn or in any way injured theblock can be readily inverted and the lower face thereof thereby broughtinto use, which is a very important feature.

It will be observed that in order to place the block in invertedposition upon the base no bolts or screws are required to be removed orapplied, and, furthermore, the block does not require cutting in any wayto fit it to the base.

What I claim as my invention is- The improved meat-block consisting of arectangular supporting-base formed of separable sides L-shaped incross-section and mitered together, legs disposed at the corners of saidbase and solely uniting said sides, the block proper seated separablyand invertibly upon said base and composed of a series of prismaticsections of wood disposed contiguously side by side in straight rows andwith their upper and lower faces in uniform horizontal planes, thesections of each row formed in the central portion of their height withtransverse grooves arranged in different planes and at right angles toeach other, bars disposed in the coinciding grooves in the adjacentsides of the rows and extending from end to end and locking saidsections together, a tie surrounding the entire series of sections andconsisting of a rectangular frame formed of separate sides miteredtogether at their meeting ends and secured to the block by means ofscrew-bolts which enter the cornersections, said frame being independentof the supporting-base and concealing the ends of the aforesaid sets oflocking-bars and pro- IO jecting from each side of the block tofacilitate the inversion of the block substantially as described.

CHARLES J. PETERS.

Witnesses:

J. J. LAASS, H. B. SMITH.

